Category archives: Street Art

Tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day of BRUTAL, a group show organized by the Lazarides gallery inside an abandoned office building at 180 The Strand. The quality of the exhibited artworks might sometimes fluctuate, but one thing is sure: their staging and the atmosphere of the decrepit underground spaces make for a striking experience. Plus the Cleon Peterson‘s mural is already alone worth the journey!

After a third edition inside the Old Vic Tunnels, Lazarides has selected a new, but equally atmospheric, off-site location for his yearly group show/event. Throughout the vast surfaces of a ground and a subterranean levels of what presumably used to be offices once, 16 artists of the gallery show their new pieces. Some were created directly for this venue, such as the previously mentioned 10m long black and white mural by Cleon Peterson.

The title of the show, BRUTAL, is reflected in all the works, whether through their topic, choice of material or their execution. Apart from Peterson, we particularly liked the glass panels of Ben Woodeson, that looked vicious when imagining how they would decapitate you if they fell, but fragile and beautiful at the same time. Mark Jenkins‘ tape sculptures are always funny, surprising and worked very well in their dark corner and Todd James‘ animation was fun too. The exhibition is also extremely photogenic (our photos are a proof). It’s definitely worth checking this show out, especially if you like street art.

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If you go, don’t forget to drop next door, in the temporary HQ of The Moving Museum to see their exhibition Open Heart Surgery, which is full of fresh and exciting young art. We’ll talk about it in detail in one of our next posts.

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Discovered on this cold but sunny Easter morning in Shoreditch: the Pope by Banksy or in a Banksy’s style (who can be sure of these things nowadays anyway).
What’s more remarkable is that Vatican was the first to spot this new piece and included a witty retort in today’s Pope Francis’ “Urbi et Orbi” address, denouncing ‘greed looking for easy gain‘. Eat this, spray-can Philistines!

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Unfortunately the show was on for just a week (it finished last Sunday), but it was well worth experiencing! To celebrate the release of Wreck-It Ralph (animated movie about an arcade game character who travels through other arcade games in a quest to rid himself of his role as a villain), Disney transformed part of East London’s Brick Lane into a pixelised mise-en-scène with 8-bit clouds, tree, dog and pigeons as well as several icons of the city’s urban landscape: black cab, black water pipe, red mailbox, CCTV etc.

The models were created by film production sculptor Aden Hynes. Pixel perfect!

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Whymark Avenue in London’s Borough of Haringey is the location of what’s generally regarded as a new piece of Banksy (‘though not authenticated by the artist yet). The stencil depicts a boy sweatshop worker stitching together Union Jack bunting and is said to be targeting the upcoming celebration of Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.